458 Assembly Proceedings, April 23-June 5, 1740.

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735
May 14

Wednesday Morning 14 May 1740

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
yesterday
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
in the Morning
A Message from the Lower House by M^rs Calder and Colville

By the Lower House of Assembly 14 May 1740
May 1t please Your Honours
Whoever reads your Message to this House of the 8^th Instant and
Our Answer thereto may easily see how groundless it is to charge
us with Coolness or Indifferency in what concerns Our Duty to his
Majesty, and the Honour and Prosperity of Our Mother Country ;
and that It was from your Assertion not to pass any Bill whatever,
unless that for Arms and Ammunition was made to end with a
Session of Assembly, that we desisted proceeding any further on the
Bill for Encouragement of his Majestys Levies, since for the Reasons
mentioned in that Message of Ours we could not agree to any Money
Bills having such a Duration; Your Words are " And therefore
we rather chuse to return that Bill for Arms and Ammuntion with
a Negative, than by passing it, or any Other at this Juncture, to for-
ward the making a Session which must put an End to an Act of the
like kind that otherwise will continue till a Session happens "
We cannot find any Part of Our Message wherein it is said that
the Bill for Arms and Ammunition in no ways relates to his Majestys
Service, or is destructive to Our Constituents; we have indeed told
your Honours that the making that or any other Bill of the like kind
to end with a Session we have found by Experience to be hurtful,
and cannot have any Relation to his Majestys Service, since the
Alternative we propose must much more contribute to that Service

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than such a Determination possibly could do, nor can we agree with
your Honours that the same Reason holds with regard to Laws of a
different kind; It is well known Our Mother Country grants their
Supplies annually, and increase or diminish them as they see Oc-
casion, and the Reason why they grant them for so short a time and
with a fixed Duration, we presume cannot be unknown to your
Honours
The Use you are pleased to make of what we said of the Sub-
serviency of One Branch of a Legislature to another, is very extraor-
dinary, insinuating that We are only prompted by a Desire your
Offices should be enjoyed by Others than Yourselves, although this
be an odd Way of answering Facts, yet 'tis not new: It is thus,